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The mating sounds of dinosaurs - continued
If anyone still wonders why the daily newspaper industry is in its death throes, the first section of today's (Sunday) edition of our local daily is a good example.
Except for a story about a new gas turbine at Barnstable High, the only local news in the front section was a stem cell story which Paul Gauvin had reported a month ago in the weekly Barnstable Patriot:
Barnstable boy, family head for China stem cell treatment
Click here to see Paul's February 24 story. It is ironic that while most if not all Sunday editions of America's daily newspapers have the least local news content, that edition is the most profitable by a huge margin due to all the inserts and wired and canned boilerplate used to surround the advertising rather than locally written stories. The goose has killed the golden egg.
The missing local news is the result of margin bottom-lining and NOT the idea of the local editors. Ottaway has always been one of Dow Jones' most profitable properties, the Cape edition especially, but the greed of the media moguls who rule has no limit.
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Yes, once all the newspapers are driven out of business, the only source of news will be the government.
Good strategy.
The national and weekly press is growing and vital.
Some of us don't see any difference now, and it's all one sided.
The news will find a way, the news media is what is changing and for the better I think.
Editor: Thanks. It's fixed.
Just to chime in...I read the Cape Cod Times for it's local news...whenever they have an AP story I have almost always read it at another newspapers webstie. Sometimes weeks earlier. Eventually they'll realize that they must change
Editor's Note: Two local examples are these -
CNC (the parent of The Cape Codder, Register, Oracle, Upper cape Codder) has launched two new weeklies in the last six monthes - the Wareham Bulletin and the Plymouth Bulletin against entrenched competition from...
The Enterprise Media Group ( the parent of The Patriot Ledger, Brockton Enterprise, MP Communications)has bought two other newspapers groups, a total of over a dozen mastheads, in the last year.
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